1. | Using the hypotheses and questions generated from stage one, provided a detailed account of the processes and the underpinning mechanisms and contains factors identified. Organisation of extracted information into evidence tables. |
2. | Data is themed to reflect the observed characteristics of health care working in and with care homes (taking account of confounding evidence). |
3. | Connections between the extracted data and the themes is examined and repeatedly tested according to the evidence to build a cumulative picture of the possible context mechanism outcomes that have a basis in the available evidence. |
4. | The development of propositions about different Context Mechanism Outcome (CMO) threads that the evidence indicates supports effective working in some or all of the five outcomes of interest. |